Bangladesh border guards block Myanmar Rohingya refugees

‘Bangladeshi coast guards have refused to allow in scores of Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine, where the government continues with a deadly push against members of the minority.
Coast guard spokesman Sheikh Fakhr Uddin said on Saturday that the deported refugees included women and children who had reported harsh treatment by Myanmar’s security forces and Buddhist vigilante groups.
“We found two injured among 18 men, along with nine women and four children. But we had to send them back,” Fakhr Uddin said, adding that the boat transporting the Rohingya refugees on the Naf river, on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, had 31 people on board when it was sent back.
Since a renewed crackdown began against Muslims in Rakhine months ago, the Rohingya have increasingly tried to enter the bordering Cox’s Bazar, a district in southeastern Bangladesh where nearly 400,000 refugees are living in squalid camps and makeshift settlements.’
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